Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-11

~ too ioneusg0S ono MS success a drama.
SsnoDt WaD evinCed by his " Mshonet" !" win.
~ the prize for an original play offered by
< SDdVln Forrest Miles 10 long dead, but his
4monoey 10 sweetly cherished In the neigh.
ougA0od whore ho lived and hOurished. One
11nDo q mountains here was named by him
= Aehillss' Bow" because of its resem-
boanCo 70 Q gigantic hunters bow, aud the
poee3c designation is still retained.
TWO HISTORIC INSTITUTIONS.
A literary flavor 10 impaired to the old
soDWn By the two great educational Institu.
o1ons that lie just bsyond its borders. Only q
noOoo's throw from the village rise the beau
st1ful buildings OF the onvent of the Sisters
- Charity while off to the right a. the very
oooo OF the mountain, Mount Saint Mary's
1hes0 each havo remsrksnle histories. The
college was founded in ls0S and the conven.
year later Both are Catholic institutions,
but have always been popular educational
centres for young men and women Of all
teiths In this mountain colleee John Huahes,
ofter wards the great archbishop OF New York,
pursuod his avocation OF gardener while alb
3 eurblDg theology; and here, too, his success.
1T thee SaD~t6 it him for his subseq quent
kished ecclesiastical career Arch
100 Corrigsn, the present occu pant OF tue
New York eplscopacy, 10 another slumnus OF
ne institution and sucn iaymsu a. Frank
lin b Gowen have been proud TO call Mount
SAint Mary's their cherishing mother.
q II is pleasure to report that this venerabl5 8
institution, which In the past half dozen
years has passed through some severe tiusn.
Cial straits, is now on smooth sea Under the
able and scholarly control Of President Ed
ward p. Allen, the institution IL moving up
10 higher place In the educational drms.
Ment than 1t had ever before attained.
GREAT CONVENT.
Tho convent buildings OF the Sisters of
4 Charity arc probably the finest OF that type
of architecture In the country. All that
ntone. brick and marble could do to make g
them beautiful has been done, and the En-
miteburR villagers are IS proud of them rs
nEo tho 800 sisters who find their home with
n these wallis This institution is the
mother house OF the order in the whole
finance In the first decade of the present
esntury by Mrs. Eliza SsatoB, a Jealous
woman, who became the hrst Mother Su-
porior OF the order in this country. The
nooument TO her work that now exists in
these splendid buildings should satisfy the
most enthusiastic woman suffragist
M II any one supposes that the inmates OF
mt grand old convent spend their time in
howailing the wickedness OF this world and
Ipjoicing In their own superior goodness, he
hvastly mistaken. They are the busies,
Httle people In the world. They believe
s N the maxim tabOrdre est ordre, Yet all is
done 20 nOiselessly and with such apparent
eese that one finds 1t hard to TeslIzs that
ltcm this institution 20 forth the orders
! tAae direct the actions OF thousands OF nuns
! throughout this country.
One department OF the convent IL st
i Josephs academy, devoted TO the education
- century enjoyed the highest OF reputa.
IONS In this regard. Some OF the fairest and
osoee talented OF society women may here be
Jound In their modest dark cloth dress and
white cornet, teaching the young feminine
teea how to shoot. They have given up an
@lteu brilliant life In the world to devote
tbetr energies to making the world better by
toproving 0arth's best creatUre-lOvely
woman.
CLOIsTERED SAINT.
lt was the privilege Of the writer to have
= interview with one OF the most char ming
- these oloistered ssinls ON the occasion OF
- visit to the place. 1t IL surely not too
eevere IN of1ense against the csnons OF good
\ oeeo to describe her as Q very beautiful
woman, for she had one of those sweet faces,
which shone not only personal charms,
p0s great nobility of character. Her thirty
& Jan In the cloister seemed to have removed
ny small share OF dross in her original char
1Ses' ls9v'ng behind residuum OF refined
9no II she knew that her personality
would DO thus freely discussed none would
- quicker 70 forbid It But the writer can.
O o0e iorbear taking his readers into his conf
eonce 70 toll them Of the fair flower Of
VoWenly virtue and nobility that In growing
3 epart from the world within these historic
8 oouveut WallA ~
;s% Bat Il II not to write OF the charm of her
= DeooouCe that this reference To her was bes nm
- rather 70 catch something to record from
|& ~ brilliant conversation. Graphically she
Z ~ OF her experiences In the hospitsls of
anhington and Richmond during the war
a #3oU when the wounded we're brought from
*4no 6elds OF battle, the blue and the gray
Voyo laid side by side under care OF the Ten.
y D1onrted sisters. whose only desire was the
z 0V1nto0 OF the mtseries OF suffering
Il s1moDlty.
u / Wmsmber," !" she said, her voice falling
~ memory Of the bitter war days WAS rs.
elods "o0e poor fellow who was 90 bAdl y
HuDnDdod thaS 10 could not talk. He had
snpona black eyes, and when he turned them
d ne could read clearly In his sgonized
sannce that no craved something to check this
wrible waste that IVES going on within.
%D0ssledly gave him some brandy, h0lding
kDy esm unoer bis head. But the same sp-
seltng look followed me, and the same oon-
L nlnove tWttchipg Of the mouth In the effort
fAaoeak. Again I ministsred 10 him with
~ liquor and . third tune, and sttil the
- yeerntng In the dying syeA Suddenly
VI Doeaced thai the right sleeve OF my dress
- saturated with liquor. A closer investt.
l1no revealed that II was brandy, ana hor.
Z - hosFore Uncovered my patient had
nock Ol bis neck shOt away, snd that ths
Dog attended for hts stomach had gone
gN0h the gaping wound and saturated
oopp0rtiuK arm Poor iellow! death
e9ne 70 end bis sufIsTingA"
ew eoavens queen did not conane her.